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United States:
- Total infections: 582,594 (Up 25,004)
- 44,308 recovered (Up 2,477)
- 23,649 deaths (Up 1,540)
- COVID-19 is now the leading cause of daily deaths in the United States, surpassing daily cancer and heart disease deaths
- Current mortality rate in U.S. is 4.1% (up .1%) (Pending infections less than two weeks)
- U.S. mortality rate is trending up, despite increased testing criteria to find more cases
- Small decrease in the number of new daily diagnosis and deaths
Texas:
- 178 Texas counties reporting cases (Up 1)
- No longer able to report community spread by county due to multiple reporting agencies and differing definitions by agency/county
- Deaths: 296 (Up 21)
- Lubbock daily deaths represented nearly one fourth of the reported state wide deaths
- Total Texas Cases: 14,505 (Up 619)
- Texas mortality rate is 2.0% (Down .1%) (Pending infections less than two weeks)
- 1,176 lab confirmed COVID-19 patients currently receiving hospital care (Down 162)
- 2,269 Recovered (Up 255)
Regional:
- 317 cases in Lubbock (up 10)
- 21 deaths in Lubbock county (Up 5)
- 87 cases recovered in the South Plains area (Up 7)
- 375 confirmed cases on the South Plains (Up 11)
- 10 diagnosed cases in Terry county (No change)
- 4 Terry county case recovered
